Success Quote

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Carl Jung

November 12, 2008 | Filed Under Quotes | Leave a Comment 

Change 1 FOCUS And You Can Change It All!

Your time, attention and energy are your most valuable assets. By that I mean for you personally, and for your clients. The more time you spend wavering among different potential target industries or ideal clients, the more energy you’ve frittered away with little to show for it.

It’s time to set your focus!

Ask yourself:

“Who are the specific clients I’d prefer to serve, and how many per year?”

Get that description written down, specifically and clearly.

NOW go take a look at what items you’ve been spending your time on and set aside every single one that isn’t directly aligned with getting you in front of those clients, every day for the next 60 business days.

Share it – tell everyone around you that you’re focusing in the near term on that specific group and watch what occurs. People you’ve known for ages may even be stepping forward saying “That’s me! I’ve been waiting for someone like you to help me!”

November 10, 2008 | Filed Under Catalyst Action Tip | Leave a Comment 

Law Of Attraction Is The THIRD Step For Businesses

© 2008 Linda Feinholz.

One of my clients, Don, kept waffling back and forth over which sized firms he wanted as his clients. For the lack of that focus, his efforts were scattered and outright conflicting with each other.

If you’ve been aware of hearing about the Law of Attraction recently, you’re in step with the latest message about inspiration. For nearly 25 years, I’ve seen it taught in various forms, from ‘mindfulness retreats’ to est to various Human Potential and Self-Actualization programs. Each program teaches their own frameworks, or those borrowed from the ages, to give us tools to use on a daily basis.

As with anything in life, all the techniques and frameworks are only moderately effective if you don’t KNOW where you’re going. Without a clear Vision and destination in mind you’ll either eventually get lost or it’ll take you a long time to get there, much longer than necessary.

If you’re heading out to drive into new territory and choose to do it without a roadmap, you may spend a lot of your time recognizing you’re lost and looking for road-side assistance, over and over again. It may not make sense to even head out in the first place.

Over the years, it’s been proven out that if you don’t consciously declare what you want, you’ll continually attract what your unconscious mind wants to attract rather than what you say you want.

In business, I see this play out over and over again with participants in my Productivity and Time Mastery Kick Start Program. People learn a technique or two that has the potential to double and even triple how much they accomplish in less time. They take on a commitment to using the new practices, and then come back asking for personal tune-ups.

When we take a closer look at what’s going on, they’ve go the technique down pat. They’re often missing the content – what they’re spending their time on has not been prioritized or selected to get them to a specific destination. Read more

November 8, 2008 | Filed Under Goal Setting, Vision | Leave a Comment 

Inspiration … from Focus!

I was in a marvelous workshop this past weekend. It’s titled Rejuvenate Your Practice and was lead by founder Jesse Koren. He and his wife have built a $750,000 a year business in 3 years teaching holistic practitioners how to built their business.

I was there to learn about their work and how they built their success – you’ll hear about it in detail in an upcoming radio interview on The Spark Effect – and came away with a couple of insights I want to share with you.

Regardless of the industry you’re in, the products or services you offer, you cannot make progress until you get your first steps focused.

Jesse and Sharla are creating their results because they FOCUSED and keep checking that each new effort is building on that focus.

I want you to have some of the basics under your belt so you can achieve the potential that’s waiting for you to show up. So you’ll find them in my upcoming article.

I look forward to your thoughts about all of this.

Let me know!

November 7, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

Next Up on The Spark Effect radio show

Next Up on the radio…

The Spark Effect internet radio show -

Hosted by Linda Feinholz on VoiceAmerica Business Internet Radio

Guest: Dr. Bob Sniderman, HR Focus

“5 Human Resource Mistakes That Will Sink Your Ship”

You can join the show on Monday, November 10th, 10 a.m. Pacific

at http://www.modavox.com/VoiceAmericaBusiness/

Please, pass the word along to others as well. YOU CAN SEE MORE DETAILS BY CLICKING HERE

November 5, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

A Hallowe’en thought.


Houston – we have lift off!

The Spark Effect internet radio show launched to great applause on the 27th of October.

You can listen to the shows live OR on demand HERE… My show – The Spark Effect – Grow Your Business Further, Faster, Easier is live each Monday at 10 a.m. Pacific, rebroadcasts at 10 p.m., and then is available for on demand listening or download. Jeremy Lurey and I had a great conversation about what it takes to design and achieve improvements in a business’s operations.

And in keeping with the Halloween that’s upon us, and the terrors and fears being stirred up about the economy, it seemed timely to send you two messages that share the same theme: Say BOO!.

The first message is that there may be reasons you haven’t thought of to USE bankruptcy as a business tactic (and personal, too). You’ll hear all about the myths and misconceptions of that legal action in yesterday’s interview on The Spark Effect radio show. Andy Goodman, an attorney who brings clarity to they when’s, how’s and why’s of bankruptcy will walk us through all of it.

The second message is “Don’t let the Goblins Get YOU!” This past weeks article shared several steps you can take to break the  ‘fright cycle’ that’s being instilled in us by the media, our politicians, and even panicking friends and family.

Go back a couple of days and read it again. In fact print it out put in near your computer to reminds you to scare off the bogeymen in your life!

November 3, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

Change 1 FEAR And You Can Change It All!

The conversation at every table, whether at home or in restaurants is all dire. The world has ‘never’ seen a disaster like the one we’re facing now. There is ‘no way out’ unless we’re rescued. Half the world is ‘for’ us and half is ‘against’ us.

Most of what we read, see and hear is made-up, by others, because it serves their interests, not yours.

You may not be able to reign in all the fear mongering around you but you can take control over your own attention and energy. Right here. Right now. As soon as you do, you’ll both bring your own anxieties under control, you’ll model that calm for others and create a heightened productivity for yourself and everyone on your team.

Ask yourself:

“What are TEN successes my team and I have created in the past two weeks?”

Got that list written down?

NOW go share it – flood people with the information about the good that has been achieved very recently. Add to this creating a daily list and telling at least 3 people the next day.

You have the power to change the view people hold to one of hope and possibility. Be that Spark of light to your world and those around you.

November 1, 2008 | Filed Under Catalyst Action Tip | Leave a Comment